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Aug 26, 2014 02:14AM
What do you think of James K.A. Smith?
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Oh boy. I could talk for a while on that. As a philosopher he is outstanding. I really didn't understand Derrida or Heidegger until I read him (and I had read 500 pages of Heidegger prior).I first started reading him on Radical Orthodoxy. At the time I was a huge fan of Radical Orthodoxy and John Milbank, so I really didn't get the full force of Smith's critique. I now do.
I don't like him as much per cultural theologian. I think some of his proposals are wacky.
What's his background and confessional position?
